Desiring emancipation
Subtitle: new women and homosexuality in Germany, 1890-1933
By: Marti M. Lybeck
Series: SUNY series in queer politics and cultures; SUNY series in queer politics and cultures
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9781438452210; 9781438452227
Subjects: History; Lesbians; Lesbianism
Description: "Desiring Emancipation traces middle-class German women's claims to gender emancipation and sexual subjectivity in the pre-Nazi era. The emergence of homosexual identities and concepts in this same time frame provided the context for expression of individual struggles with self, femininity, and sex. The book asks how women used new concepts and opportunities to construct selves in relationship to family, society, state, and culture. Taking a queer approach, Desiring Emancipation's goal is not to find homosexuals in history, but to analyze how women reworked categories of gender and sex. Marti M. Lybeck interrogates their desires, demonstrating that emancipation was fraught with conflict, anachronism, and disappointment."--Publisher's Web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-258) and index.
Table of contents: title: "Are these women?" : University students' quest for a new gender; title: Experiments in female masculinity : Sophia Goudstikker's masculine mimicry in turn-of-the-century Munich; title: Asserting sexual subjectivity in Berlin : the proliferation of a public discourse of female homosexuality, 1900-1912; title: Denying desire : professional women facing accusations of homosexuality; title: Emancipation and desire in Weimar Berlin's female homosexual public sphere.